National Art Museum receives TripAdvisor certificate of excellence

The National Art Museum of Romania (MNAR) has received the 2014 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence due to the favourable reviews received from visitors over the last year. According to a MNAR release issued, quoted by Agerpres, the TripAdvisor prize is granted following the qualitative analysis of the opinion of those who visited MNAR and reflects the positive image of the institution, which recorded a total number of 90,700 visitors in 2013. TripAdvisor.com is a well-known tourism promotion website, whose goal is to provide detailed and current information about various tourist locations based on visitors’ experience. It also includes an interactive forum dedicated to travels. The MNAR is the owner of the richest heritage of Romanian and universal art in the country. Established in 1948, it is housed by the former Royal Palace, occupying an important place in the hierarchy of cultural institutions in Bucharest. The steps to make the museum accessible to all public categories has continued in 2014 by launching virtual tours, available free of charge on the museum’s website. Made in collaboration with Imago Factory, the tours include, along the permanent galleries of MNAR (Romanian Old Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Romanian Art and European Art Gallery) also satellite-museums: the Museum of Art Collections, the K.H. Zambaccian Museum and the Theodor Pallady Museum.